Honorary graduates

Doctor of the University

22 October 1966

• Sir John Adams CMG FRS
• Austen Harry Albu
• Sir Leon Bagrit
• Sir Alec Issigonis CBE
• The Rt Hon the Earl of Munster KBE
• Dame Sybil Thorndike DBE

6 January 1968

• Julian Bream OBE
• Professor Joseph Cathala Officier Legion d'Honneur
• Sidney Frank Rich OBE
• Dr Ralph Winton West CBE (Posthumous)

2 December 1968

• Professor Carl Hirsh
• Sir William Houghton
• Dr Francis Edgar Jones MBE FRS
• Rt Hon the Lord Nugent of Guildford
• Lady Ruth Nugent
• Professor Sir Alfred Grenville Pugsley OBE FRS   

3 December 1969

• Sir Harold Montague Finniston FRS
• Professor Sir Michael James Lighthill FRS
• Dr Arthur Douglas Merriman GC OBE
• Dr Edward John Victor Pasmore CBE
• Dr Beatrice Shilling OBE

5 December 1970

• Professor Etienne Paul Grandjean
• Professor Sir George Porter FRS
• The Rt Rev George Edmund Reindorp
• Sir Ernest George Woodroofe

4 December 1971

• Professor Stephane du Chateau
• Sir Edward Fennessy CBE
• Sir Laurens Jan van der Post CBE

1 December 1972

• Professor Dennis Gabor CBE FRS
• Philip Victor Marchant
• Dr Charles Garrett Williams

1 December 1973

• Yehudi Menuhin
• Dr Rendel Sebastian Pease

30 December 1974

• Professor Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS
• Philip Sydney Henman
• John William Penycate

27 August 1975

• Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell OBE FRS
• Sir Frederick Lincoln Ralphs
• Lady Jackson DBE (Barbara Ward)

29 November 1975

• Sir Charles Forte
• The Rt Hon Lord Gardiner of Kittisford
• Dr Douglas Malcolm Aufrere Leggett
• Sir Ronald Wallace Wates
• The Rt Hon Viscount Watkinson of Woking
• LtCol Herbert James Wells CBE MC

4 December 1976

• Sir Kenneth George Corfield
• Professor ThoroldDickinson CBE
• Dr Joseph Needham FRS

26 January 1977

• The Rt Hon Lord Robens of Woldingham

3 December 1977

• Sir Frederick Charles Frank FRS
• Elisabeth Frink CBE
• Sir Claus Adolf Moser Comdr de l'Ordre Nat Du Merite (Fr)

1 December 1978

• Professor Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf
• Sir Ralph Freeman CBE
• Professor William Valentine Mayneord CBE FRS

30 November 1979

• Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood
• Professor Otto Gustaf Edholm
• Sir George Robert Edwards OM CBE FRS
• Professor Reginald Victor Jones CB CBE FRS
• Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal CMG

28 November 1980

• Dr Duncan Sheppey Davies
• Dr Eric Duckworth
• Vernon Handley
• Sir Francis Avery Jones CBE

4 December 1981

• Dr Jack Birks CBE
• Sir Ernest Thomas Harrison OBE
• Dr Richard Hoggart

3 December 1982

• John Eveleigh Bolton CBE DSC
• Professor Sir David Gwynne Evans CBE FRS
• John Royden Maddox
• Sir David Alexander Orr MC

2 December 1983

• Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS
• Viscount Etienne Davignon
• Sir Ieuan Maddock CB OBE FRS FREng
• Sir Georg Solti KBE

7 December 1984

• Professor Rosalinde Hurley
• Robert Malpas CBE FREng
• Thomas Irvine Smith OBE
• Sir John Vane FRS

6 December 1985

• Dr ir Hendrikus Ludovicus Beckers
• Dennis Joseph Enright
• Sir John Harvey-Jones MBE
• Samuel Curtis Johnson

12 December 1986

• Anthony Alfred Caro KB
• Dr Ronald Frederick Coleman
• Dr Desmond George King-Hele
• Professor Sir William Macdonald Paton CBE FRS

11 December 1987

• Bernard Albert Eastwell OBE
• Dr Kevin William Keohane CBE
• Sir John Emms Read
• Henri Charles Vidal

9 December 1988

• Professor Ke Jun (Tsun Ko)
• Sir Richard Anthony Meyjes
• Brian Frederick Street
• Sir Francis Leonard Tombs

8 December 1989

• Sir Geoffrey Allen FRS
• The Rt Hon Lord Cockfield of Dover
• Sir Charles Hugh Reece

6 July 1990

• The Rt Hon Lord Wolfson of Marylebone

20 July 1990

• John Stuart Bevan
• The Rev Dr Donald English

7 December 1990

• Sir Walter Bodmer FRS
• Baroness Cumberlege of Newick CBE
• Sir Denis Rooke CBE FRS FREng
• Professor Jon Stallworthy

19 July 1991

• Professor Paul Joseph Black OBE
• Dr Gerhard Weiler

29 November 1991

• Professor George Alfred Hugh Elton CB
• Sir Charles Barnard Groves CBE
• Dr Carole Jordan FRS
• The Lord Rayner of Crowborough
• The Rt Rev & Rt Hon the Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon 
• Leonard John Weaver CBE

17 July 1992

• Academician Igor Semyonovich Kon

24 July 1992

• The Very Rev Desmond Anthony Beirne

31 July 1992

• Richard John William Alston
• Professor Robert Anthony Bernard Leaper CBE

4 December 1992

• Professor Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya
• His Eminence Cardinal (George) Basil Hume
• Leonard John Kail
• Professor Claude Levy-Leboyer
• Professor Howard Joseph Newby
• Professor Alexander Michael Ross
• Professor William Duncan Paterson Stewart

30 July 1993

• Professor David Burman Edgar
• Professor Alexander Shurbanov

3 December 1993

• Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
• Zena Oxlade CBE
• Professor Kenneth Packer FRS
• Sir Austin William Pearce CBE
• Professor Roger Penrose FRS
• Dr Heinz Riesenhuber

8 July 1994

• Dr Peter Brinson
• Geoffrey Lomer CBE FREng
• Chikahisa Nagai
• Professor Yasuharu Suematsu

22 July 1994

• Professor Peter Clifford McIntosh

29 July 1994

• Professor Henry Chadwick

9 December 1994

• Peter Bonfield CBE FREng
• Bryan Hildrew CBE FREng
• Dr Zenon Jagodzinski   
• Professor Anthony Kelly CBE FREng FRS
• Dr Alan Rudge OBE FREng FRS
• Charles Sandbank FREng

27 July 1995

• Baroness Perry of Southwark

1 December 1995

• The Rt Rev Michael Adie CBE
• Dr Cham Tao Soon
• Professor Rita R Colwell
• Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury
• Sir Diarmuid Downs CBE, FRS

1 July 1996

• Judith Olivia Dench, OBE

19 July 1996

• The Rt Hon Baron Nolan of Brasted

25 July 1996

• Monica Mason

20 December 1996

• Professor Sir David Davies, CBE, FREng, FRS
• Professor Patrick Boulter, FRCSE, FRCS

12 June 1997

• Professor Ernst-Ulrich Schlünder

13 June 1997

• Sir Rocco Forte

30 June 1997

• David Terence Miller
• Nicholas Andrew Serota

23 July 1997

• Rt Rev John Jukes
• Trevor McDonald OBE

24 July 1997

• Marilyn Speers Butler
• Iona Margaret Balfour Opie

5 December 1997

• Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

12 December 1997

• Mr Ivor Forbes Guest
• Mr Nabil Mohammed Shaban
• Sir John Meurig Thomas, ScD, FRS

4 December 1998

• Dr Paul Bélanger
• Mr Peter Kenneth Blair OBE FREng
• Dr Sam Ramsamy

17June 1999

• Siobhan Davies MBE

18 June 1999

• General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM
• Professor Akito Arima

3 December 1999

• Mary Patricia McAleese
• Professor Stephen Campbell Holt
• Sir Richard Sykes DSc FRS
• Dr John Michael Taylor OBE FREng

3 July 2000

• Patrick Caulfield

21 July 2000

• Michael David Wheeler

14 July 2000

• Tanni Grey-Thompson, OBE

1 December 2000

• Ron Dennis

15 June 2001

• Sir Eric Ash, CBE. FREng, FRS

2 July 2001

• Professor Anthony Cragg
• Jocelyn Herbert

27 July 2001

• Dr Michael Marland, CBE

30 November 2001

• Sir John Parker FREng FRINA FIMarE
• Dr Andrew G Rickman, OBE

25 July 2002

• Professor John Sutherland

26 July 2002

• Brian William Alderson

13 June 2002

• Dr Robert Hawley CBE
• Dr Alan Hayes, CBE

6 December 2002

• Peter Saraga
• H.E. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, STL, PhL
• Penelope Keith OBE

19 June 2003

• The Hon Judge David Edward, CMG, QC, FRSE

20 June 2003

• Professor Michael Baker, TD, FRSE
• Mary Baker, MBE
• Professor Otto Pick, CMG

30 June 2003

• Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE

16 July 2003

• Gerald O’Collins SJ

24 July 2003

• Philip Pullman

25 July 2003

• Steven Pinker

2 April 2004

• Sir David Martin Brown,  FREng
• Professor Roger Howard Clarke
• Lennart Meri
• Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

17 June 2004

• Sir Daniel Norton Idris Pearce, CBE, TD, DL
• Derek John Thomas, CBE, DL                      

28 June 2004

• Terry Gilliam

2 March 2005

• Bhiku Chhotalal Parekh

8 April 2005

• Dr Ernest Littauer
• Professor David Wood
• Professor Michael Gibbons MBE

17 June 2005

• Sir Harold Kroto
• Alec James Stewart OBE

16 June 2006

• Professor Jerrold Marsden
• Professor Patrick Dowling CBE
• Mrs Janet Gaymer CBE

30 March 2007

• Mrs Claire Rayner, OBE       
• Sir David Varney

21 June 2007

• Mr Thomas Joseph Black
• Mr Peter Molyneux, OBE     

22 June 2007

• The Rt Hon the Lord Browne of Madingley
• Mr James Douglas Moir Robertson, CBE
• Lord Sainsbury of Turville

4 April 2008

• Mr Neil James Kipling
• drs Jan Derwig

17 June 2008

• Professor Richard F Casten

18 June 2008

• Professor Jean Hooper, CBE

19 June 2008

• Mr Arie de Geus
• Sir Ray Tindle
• Sir George Martin, CBE

20 June 2008

• Mr James (Jimmy) Patrick Page, OBE

2 April 2009

• Professor Peter Bunyan
• Mr Martin Earwicker

3 April 2009

• Mr Jonny Wilkinson, OBE

24 June 2009

• Mr Noel Fitzpatrick
• Miss Vicki Hansford

26 June 2009

• Mr Elon Musk

15 April 2010

• Dame Linda Dobbs, DBE
• Sir Adrian White, CBE

15 July 2010

• Mr Peter Hutley, OBE
• Mr David Sheard

16 July 2010

• His Honour John Bull, QC DL

12 April 2011

• Professor Andrew Hamilton

12 July 2011

• Lady Diana Kerr

13 July 2011

• Mr Roger Black, MBE

14 July 2011

• Sir Michael Aaronson, CBE
• Mr John Williams

15 July 2011

• Professor John Sexton
• Dr Graham Spittle, CBE

19 April 2012

• The Right Reverend Dr Jonathan Frost

20 April 2012

• Professor Alf Adams
• Professor Hussain Al-Shahristani
• Mr Michael Glover
• Mr Robert Lainé

17 July 2012

• The Very Reverend Victor Stock

20 July 2012

• Ms Sandi Toksvig, OBE
• Professor Lord Robert Winston

10 April 2013

• Professor Walter Stahel

11 April 2013

• Professor Gordon Murray, CBE

12 April 2013

• Mr Christopher Rodrigues, CBE

16 July 2013

• Mr Paul Sheffield

17 July 2013

• Mr Colin Stokes
• Professor Adnei Melges de Andrade

18 July 2013

• Mr Michael Buerk

19 July 2013

• Mr Max Taylor

20 July 2013

• Dr Richard Budgett, OBE

9 April 2014

• Sir Richard Stilgoe, OBE DL
• Nikolai Dimidenko

15 July 2014

• Professor Dame Sally Davies
• Dr Ann Prentice, OBE

16 July 2014

• Mr Geoff Leone

18 July 2014

• Mr Neil Chapman
• Sir William Wells

16 April 2015

• The Rt Revd Christopher Hill
• Ms Judith Hackitt

17 April 2015

• Mr Dudley Eustace

14 July 2015

• Colonel Philippe Rossiter
• Mr Thomas Chambers

15 July 2015

• Professor Peter Flewitt

16 July 2015

• His Excellency Mr Ahmet Üzümc

13 July 2016

• Professor Sir Christopher Snowden
• Dr John Forrest, CBE

15 July 2016

• Professor John Picket, CBE

6 April 2017

• Mr Nick Moberly

7 April 2017

• Mr Liam Heath, MBE

13 July 2017

• Professor Sir Jim McDonald
• Mr Kevin McGrath OBE, DL

14 July 2017

• The Rt. Hon. the Lord Willetts

12 April 2018

• Professor Dame Anne Glover
• Ms Perdita Hunt OBE

13 April 2018

• Mr Paul Polman KBE

19 July 2018

• Mr Brian Allison

20 July 2018

• Mr Ashley Herman
• Dr Jamie Shea

10 April 2019

• Professor Christopher Lowe, OBE

15 July 2019

• Dr Sylvia Lancaster, OBE

17 July 2019

• Ms Odaline de la Martinez
• Professor Dame Sue Hill, OBE

18 July 2019

• Rt Hon Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, DL
• Professor Paul Wellings, CBE